On 16 August 2011 10:53, John Walsh <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Melvin, > >> Behalf Of Melvin Carvalho >> This might be helpful too >> >> > http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/XGR-socialweb-20101206/#Terminolo > gy > > I read the document, only to find I was "re-inventing the wheel" with my FBX > suggestions, sigh :( > > I liked the documents "big picture approach" and I think the FBX's wiki is > missing that vision for users like me. That's why I proposed the above > glossary because I was afraid the project was missing the bigger picture. I > realise now that the developers have all this stuff in their heads and they > just write wiki entries for the hard stuff like identity management. This > explains why the wiki is based on email subjects rather than proper topics. > I appreciate the developers are only volunteers too and their time is best > spent on coding. I would like to document what is in their head which may > not be of much value now, but I do believe in time that documentation would > be of immense value to future volunteers. > > I noticed you were one of the authors of this document - well done! The > document reminded me that data portability is very important and I don't > think that's a stated goal of the FBX project. It's a pity the document's > content cannot be shared with this project due to the copyright statement.
Thanks :) All work in the W3C should be royalty free. Sharing should not be an issue, it's why the W3C was set up. I'll double check this. > > Before I read this document I shared the social web vision in your document. > However, the corporate icons in the documents diagram's made me realise that > my personal information is being shared with corporations (Facebook, > LinkedLn, Myspace)rather than "friends". Now I am of the opinion that my > personal data should only be shared with people on an FBX or with Guests to > my FBX. IMHO now, all user generated content should be stored on an FBX to > protect a users copyright. If the user wishes to make a commercial profit > from their content, then they can place their content on commercial websites > like stockphoto for photos. > > Thanks for the link, it was quite enlightening!! > > -- fiftyfour > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss > _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
